Proselytising

"I am merely the Head of the strictly ecclesiastical section of the institution; I have nothing whatever to do with the proselytising, which is undertaken by, and is entirely in the hands of, the Grand Inquisitor and his assistants." ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Norway and Church World Service of the United States - after a television show reported they were proselytising, which is illegal in the devoutly Islamic country. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Norway and Church World Service of the United States -- after a televisions show reported they were proselytising, which is illegal in the devoutly Islamic country. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Norway and Church World Service of the United States -- after a TV show reported they were proselytising, which is illegal in the devoutly Islamic country. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the record, the deported missionaries were engaged in proselytising, which is forbidden by religion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A spokeswoman for the group in Kabul denied that its workers were proselytising, which is prohibited by law in Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

All eating is a kind of proselytising -- a kind of dogmatising -- a maintaining that the eater's way of looking at things is better than the eatee's. ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)

Local villagers have also accused the Syriac Orthodox monks of 'anti-Turkish activities such as proselytising local children -- something of which the state takes a dim view. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those for whom it is a religion will have to accept that - esp. if they want to paint Christian "proselytising" as objectionable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Critics have described Mr Pullman's work as "proselytising". ❋ Unknown (2009)

I like the Guardian's broad view of affairs and lack of proselytising. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For some, the letters NCT conjure up images of teachers proselytising about drug-free labour to a group of parents who favour cloth nappies and think formula milk is akin to feeding your baby neat gin. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Meanwhile, in the pages of the magazines, we were proselytising Superwoman as a reality. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Much has changed: her once-vibrant mother is ghostly, ailing; her brother Sohail, an erstwhile hero, has immersed himself in the ideals of a puratanical and proselytising branch of reformist Islam. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Trystan Gravelle as the proselytising John exudes the authority that comes from stillness, Geraldine James as the prime minister combines public decisiveness with private solitude, and Danny Webb is all blazing certainty as the God-hating academic. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But I deleted quite a lot from what I originally wrote, because I did not want to become side-tracked by ideas about faith, except the fanatical variety intent on proselytising. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nothing in this Part shall be read or given effect in a way which prohibits or restricts discussion, criticism or expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule, insult or abuse of particular religions or the beliefs or practices of their adherents, or of any other belief system or the beliefs or practices of its adherents, or proselytising or urging adherents of a different religion or belief system to cease practising their religion or belief system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The proselytising atheists rounding on the astronomer royal, Sir Martin Rees, for accepting a £1m award from an idiosyncratic foundation fall into a similar trap. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I feel bad if she encountered only proselytising Christians in her search for help. ❋ Unknown (2010)